Research Links

Academy for Health Services Research and Health Policy

The Academy provides a professional home and technical assistance resource for researchers and policy professionals. Committed to the vision of improving health and health care by generating new knowledge and moving knowledge into action, the Academy seeks to stimulate the development, understanding, and use of the best available health services research and health policy information by public and private decision makers.

Agency for Health Care Research and Quality

The lead agency charged with supporting research designed to improve the quality of health care, reduce its cost, and broaden access to essential services.

American Association of Retired People (AARP)

AARP is a nonprofit, nonpartisan association dedicated to shaping and enriching the experience of aging for our members and for all Americans. Founded in 1958, AARP today is the nation’s largest organization of midlife and older persons, with more than 30 million members.

American Council on Science and Health

ACSH is a non-profit, consumer education organization dedicated to providing the public with mainstream scientific information on issues related to food, nutrition, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, lifestlye, the environment and health.

American Enterprise Institute

The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research is dedicated to preserving and strengthening the foundations of freedom— government, private enterprise, vital cultural and political institutions, and a strong foreign policy and national defense— scholarly research, open debate, and publications. Founded in 1943 and located in Washington, D.C., AEI is one of America’s largest and most respected “think tanks.”

Bloomberg Bureau of National Affairs

Publisher of print and electronic news and information on health care, business, labor relations, law, economics, taxation, and other public policy and regulatory issues.

California Health Care Foundation

To expand access to affordable, quality health care for underserved individuals and communities and to promote fundamental improvements in the health status of the people of California.

Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI)

EBRI is the only nonprofit, nonpartisan organization committed exclusively to data dissemination, policy research, and education on economic security and employee benefits.

Health Economics

Continuously updated by experienced health economists, this web site is devoted to internet resources ranging from job opportunities to journals reporting on the cost-effectiveness of new pharmaceuticals.

Health Improvement Institute

An educational organization, whose primary goal is to provide information to patients, health care providers, policy-makers and the public about available health care choices and alternatives, to ensure that all Americans have the opportunity to make informed health care choices.

Health System Change

The Center for Studying Health System Change is a Washington-based research organization dedicated to studying how the country’s health care systems are changing and how those changes are affecting people at the community level.

IPRO

This site includes an audit of Medicare HEDIS data, consumer health information, a listing of health-related events and more. IPRO is an independent, not-for-profit corporation committed to assessing and improving the value of health care services received by consumers through the use of innovative methods and technologies.

Kaiser Family Foundation

An independent philanthropy focusing on the major health care issues facing the nation. The Foundation is an independent voice and source of facts and analysis for policymakers, the media, the health care community, and the general public.

The Lewin Group

Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.

Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., is known for its objective research to support decisions about our nation’s social policy problems. The firm has conducted studies of health care, welfare, education, employment, nutrition, and early childhood policies and programs in the United States.

Milliman & Robertson

M&R is a firm of actuaries and consultants serving the full spectrum of business, governmental and financial organizations.

National Committee on Quality Assurance

The premier source for information about the quality of the nation’s managed care plans.

RAND Health

A nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation was established as a national philanthropy in 1972 and today it is the largest US foundation devoted to improving the health and health care of all Americans. The Foundation concentrates its grantmaking in three areas: to insure that all Americans have access to basic health care at a reasonable cost; to improve care and support for people with chronic health conditions; and to promote health and prevent disease by reducing the harm caused by substance abuse — tobacco, alcohol, and illicit drugs.

Stanford University, Center for Health Policy

Stanford University’s Center for Health Policy (CHP) and the Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research (PCOR) are dedicated to providing reliable information for health policy and health care delivery to public and private sector decision-makers.

UCLA, School of Public Health

The School of Public Health is a component of the renowned UCLA Center for the Health Sciences.

Urban Institute

The Urban Institute is a nonprofit policy research organization whose goals are to sharpen thinking about society’s problems and efforts to solve them, improve government decisions and their implementation, and increase citizens’ awareness about important public choices.